Preview 2 Of WinUI 3 Released

Windows team announced Preview 2 of WinUI 3, which is a quality and stability-driven release with a focus on fixing bugs and known issues from the Preview 1 release.

 

Well, Windows UI Library (WinUI) 3 is a native user experience (UX) framework for both Windows Desktop and UWP apps.

 

Preview 2 includes VS project templates in order to help you get started building apps with a WinUI-based user interface, and a NuGet package that contains the WinUI libraries.

 

 

 

WinUI 3 Preview 2 is compatible with .NET 5 Preview 5 for Desktop apps. Starting with this release, INotifyCollectionChangedand INotifyPropertyChanged will now work in C# Desktop apps.

 

With Preview 2; Point, Rect, and Size members are now Double-typed in the C# projection of the APIs for Desktop apps. The release also includes crash fixes for Input Validation and other text scenarios.

 

The team said that they are working to get Preview 3 ready for this fall, which will be packed with new features and capabilities.

 

To learn more about additions and fixes in this release, you can visit the release notes here.